prereligious

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ religious.

Adjective

prereligious (not comparable)

1. Before the existence of religion.
   • 1870, E. B. Tylor, “The Philosophy of Religion”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370:

     Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen […]